Real Madrid will need to end Rodri's remarkable run of 64 games unbeaten for club and country if they want to exact revenge on Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Regularly hailed as the best midfielder in the world by City boss Pep Guardiola, Rodri is the one man even a side decorated with world stars cannot live without. — AFP picMANCHESTER, April 8 — If Real Madrid are to exact revenge on Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-finals, they will need to end Rodri ’s remarkable run of 64 games unbeaten for club and country.
Regularly hailed as the best midfielder in the world by City boss Pep Guardiola, he is the one man even a side decorated with world stars cannot live without.The English champions have coped with lengthy injury absences this season for Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne. “Rodri is the best,” said Guardiola after the holding midfielder netted his eighth goal of the season last week against Aston Villa.
Two years ago, City saw a two-goal lead slip away in stoppage time at the Bernabeu as Real launched a remarkable fightback on their way to a 14th European Cup.
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